***It’s Sunday evening and you just passed 500 comments on this post. YOU DID IT, GIRLS! Honestly, this is the most exhilarating thing I’ve ever seen. As you know, we’ve posted Scriptures many times, especially through our 2009 SSMT, but this is the first time we’ve had a theme like this. These verses will stand a woman to her feet and put a shout of praise on her tongue. Let’s remember this spot, Siestas, so we can return to it many times. As my grandmother used to say, “It’ll cure what ails ya.” Memorize the date of the post – 3/6/10 – and turn back to it any time you need Christ to fill your sweet soul with an extra measure of divine strength. Thank you so, so much for your participation here.
ORIGINAL POST:
I slept until 8:30 this morning! I can’t even remember the last time! I am so hyped up and happy I hardly know what to do! There ain’t no estimatin’ how different the world can look when we get a little sleep. Sometimes when we think we need a new man (I’m not thinking that right now, just using an example), a new job, a new set of kids, a new house, or a new friend, we may just need a nap. Maybe you can work one in today.
OK, Girls, I have a weekend assignment for you. I am so jazzed about our on-line journey through SLI and I am very happy with how it’s going. Please don’t misunderstand this to mean I’m not. I’m THRILLED with the honesty you guys are expressing and I hope you’ll keep it up. This is a safe place. But I agree with one of our sisters who said something like, “Let’s pour it out here but let’s get it dealt with and get out there and be strong.” All the moaning about how hard it is only makes it harder. Breaking Free will nearly kill you but then, if you stick with it, like many of us out here have, God will use it to turn around and heal you. We have to press through and not be so easily discouraged. Our attitudes will make or break us. Let me say just as quickly that so many of you have been tremendously encouraging in the journey even through the difficulty of what we’ve had to face. We just want to band together and reach out and pull some sisters up on their feet here.
Ladies, the devil knows that if we’re too scared to even face our insecurity, we’ll never get freed up from it. If we just put the book down because it’s too heavy, how are we supposed to get up? (No, you didn’t say you were putting it down and I’m so thankful for that. But I’m convinced it’s what the enemy’s trying to get some of us to do.) We can’t deal with what we won’t face. GIRLS, WE CAN DO THIS. Are you telling me it’s harder to face it and get over it than it is to deal with it day in and day out, letting it minimize us and make fools of us and mentor the next generation to be just like us? Not to me, it’s not. I’m a whole lot happier today than I was this time a year ago. Please, keep up the honesty and let’s work this thing out together but, if you are in Christ, stop giving yourself so little credit. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. We can do ALL THINGS through Christ who strengthens us. Let’s honor what He’s done for us by doing what it takes to accept it to the marrow of our bones. The question will ultimately be this: Do we believe what God’s Word says enough to act on it?
So, that brings us to our weekend assignment: (And this is not only for the ones going through SLI. All of us could use this.) Look up Scriptures that have to do with strength and power and victory and write some out in a comment to this post. Be sure to put the reference and the translation because your sisters will want to know where they can find many of them. Try to limit your comment to the actual Scripture so that we can read one after another and claim them for ourselves through the power of Christ in our inner man.
THEN, ladies, get on here and read some of them OUT LOUD. Restate them in first person between You and your God.
I’ll get us started with one I’m saying almost every morning right now. Isaiah 52:1 NIV says…
“Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength.”
I say it out loud and picture myself right then putting on the power and might of Christ like a coat. Sometimes I might even stretch my arms like I’m pulling them through sleeves. Go ahead and think I’m such a weirdo. It’s a well established fact but I have loved it and it’s working and, anyway, I think that kind of stuff makes God grin. I’ve used it in my journey to be physically restored after my surgery and through the pain of a badly herniated disk but it is just as pertinent to our present journey toward soul-deep security.
Your Siesta Mama loves you. This is how I would talk to my own daughters when they were growing up. They could well tell you that I only put up with “This is sooooooo haaaarrrrrddddd” so long. “It won’t be near as hard when you get your tail up and do it.”
Go for it, Girls! Get your tail up and do it. Let’s clothe ourselves with these:
Kim 
For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.
Deut. 20:4 NIV
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Joshua 1:9 NIV
Yes the quote is direct from the mouth of GOD
Isaiah 41:10 NASB
Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not look anxiously about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
surely I will help you,
surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
Amen!!
Psalm 3:8 (NLT)
VICTORY comes from You, O Lord,
may You bless Your people.
I used this today, and though it doesn't have those exact words in it, my post was on overcoming today, and so I wanted to share the scripture I used:)
Genesis 32-24-28
24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, [a] because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.”
Psalm 27:1
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:14
Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD.
Don't just say this one – SHOUT it!
"The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?"
Psalm 27:1
Galatians 5:1 NASB
It was for freedom that Christ set us free;
therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery!
Amen!
"No, in all these things [trouble, hardship, persecution etc.] we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."
Romans 8:37
"Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. Psalm 105:4
"I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms."
Ephesians 1:18-20
"I am He. I am he who will sustain you. For I have made you and I will carry you. I will sustain you and I will rescue you."
Isaiah 46:4 NIV
Beth I think you actually quoted this in the book from a different translation, but I had memorized this one and it has helped me rely on God's strength not my own numerous times.
"You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you."
Isaiah 26:3
Oops. Ephesians 1:18-20 NIV
Seek the LORD and his strength;
seek his presence continually! Psalm 105:4 ESV
**Scripture Memory for 2010! 🙂
It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
Psalm 44:3
Girls, I've got chills all over my arms over these so far. YES! BRING THEM ON!
Hmmmm. Now, where is my old drill team outfit??
"He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength."
Isaiah 40:29 (NKJV)
"God is my strength and power, and he makes my way perfect."
2 Samuel 22:33 (NKJV)
"Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You."
Jeremiah 32:17
"My flesh and my heart fail;But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
Psalm 73:26
___________"being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised."
Romans 4:21 NIV
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31 NIV)
"I will strengthen them in the LORD
and in his name they will walk," declares the LORD."
Zechariah 10:12 NIV
2 Sam. 22:36 NIV
You give me your shield of victory; you stoop down to make me great.
Marcy, Redmond OR
"She will have no fear of bad news, her heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord, Her heart is secure, she will have no fear, and in the end, she will look in triumph on her adversaries."
psalm 112:7-8
YES, the enemy has NO place here!!
"The Lord goes before us AND will be with us.
He will never leave us nor forsake us.
DO NOT BE AFRAID
DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED!" Duet. 31:8
He has gone before us!! He holds our hand in our journey toward VICTORY!
"I led them with cords of kindness,
with bands of love,
and I became to them as one who eases the yoke of their jaws,
and I bent down to them and fed them." Hosea 11:4
Oh thank you Jesus. You lead us so tenderly, you bend down to us and hold our faces in your hands and I am so thankful. You are our STRONG TOWER, our LION OF JUDAH…You protect us with fierceness…We want to become healthier because we want to be USED to bring you more glory!! We praise you for being our shepherd who WILL FAITHFULLY walk, lead, redirect, carry…and smile and laugh with us along the way…until we finally are running in FREEDOM and VICTORY!!!!
Do not put your trust in princes,
in mortal men, who cannot save.
Blessed is he whose help is the God
of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, the Maker of heaven
and earth, the sea, and everything in them-the LORD, who remains faithful forever!
He upholds the cause of the oppressed(or insecure),and gives food to the hungry.(His truths to
satisfy our hunger)
The LORD sets prisoners free,(from
insecurity)the LORD gives sight to
the blind,(to show us that HE is the way)the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down,(bow before Him
and lay your insecurities at His feet), the LORD loves the righteous, (US).
Our happily ever afters aren't in
the prince charmings( or anyone else), as the world wants us to believe. It is in God alone!!
vs 10 The LORD reigns forever!!!
Priase the LORD, Siestas!
Psalm 146-NIV
"We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us."
I John 4:16a
Psalm 18:31-33
For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God, The God who girds me with strength And makes my way blameless? He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me upon my high places.
"Many are the sorrows of the wicked but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
— Psalm 32: 10
"Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good."
Jeremiah 10:5
"…This is what the Lord says to you:'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's…Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.'"
2 Chronicles 20: 15-17
God led me to this passage this morning in a totally different venue than our current SLI study!
"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom & revelaion, so that you may know Him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance on the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe.
Ephesians 1:17-19
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV
The LORD will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.
Psalm 85:12 NIV
The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV
Tracy at March 6, 2010 10:57 AM said exactly the one I was thinking of! So I'll do another…
Romans 8:37 NKJV
Yet in all these things, we [I, you, Beth, Andrea, Jodi, Paula….] are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Andrea Jones
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous.
Psalm 118:14,15
He is your constant source of STABILITY, He ABUNDANTLY provides SAFETY and great WISDOM, He gives all this to those who fear Him.
Isaiah 33:6
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
(2 Timothy 1:7 NIV)
You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north. (Deuteronomy 2:3 NASB)
"Satisfy (me Lord,) us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we (I) may sing for joy and be glad all our (my) days."
Psalm 90:14
I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
Psalm 91:2
"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." 2 Cor. 12:8-10 NIV
(I think "power" here can be interchangeable with strength…)
And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
~Colossians 1:10-12
"Strengthened according to His glorious might, not ours!" Praise God!
Ps 18:32 NIV
It is God who arms me with strength
1 John 4:4 NIV
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world
Eph 1:19-20 NLT
I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.
(The Message) Isaiah 40:28-31:
"God doesn't come and go. God lasts. He's Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn't get tired out, doesn't pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind. "
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33 NIV
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Gal. 5:1 NIV
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9 NIV
"God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble." Psalm 46:1 NIV
Proverbs 31:25
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
Micah 5:4-5
He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.
5 And he will be their peace.
Translation is NIV
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer
Romans 12:12
thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.
2 Corinthians 2:14
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength
isaiah 40:29
new king james version
Now, we're talkin', Girls! MORE!
James 4:7-8a (NIV)
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you.
2 Corinthians 3:17 (NIV)
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Psalm 34:4 (NIV)
4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.
Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)
10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Blessings
Kelli in Colorado
By the way, it doesn't matter if your verse is the same as somebody else's. Don't worry about repeats! Don't delete them. Those may be the ones God intends for us to say again and again.
Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in HIm, and He WILL DO IT!!!!!!
(Exclamations mine!!)
NASB Psalm 37:5